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Douglas C-47 v3 Livery Thread

About as easy as it gets....[but I still got the flag too big]...

I used to see this one at Essendon in the 70's [YMEN] ....always looked 'clean'....just plain silver..;)

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links to the first updates available:
PNGDF: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?...-douglas-c-47-papua-new-guinea-defence-force/
Frontier: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?...-jahns-douglas-c-47-frontier-airlines-n65276/
That's All Brother!: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5490-manfred-jahns-c-47-thats-all-brother/
Aerolineas Llaneras: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?...douglas-c-47-v2-aerolineas-llaneras-colombia/

I had a look and did about 50 paints for version 2. I am not going to update all of them, if there are any specific ones you're after, let me know?
 
jankees said:
links to the first updates available:
PNGDF: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?...-douglas-c-47-papua-new-guinea-defence-force/
Frontier: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?...-jahns-douglas-c-47-frontier-airlines-n65276/
That's All Brother!: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5490-manfred-jahns-c-47-thats-all-brother/
Aerolineas Llaneras: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?...douglas-c-47-v2-aerolineas-llaneras-colombia/

I had a look and did about 50 paints for version 2. I am not going to update all of them, if there are any specific ones you're after, let me know?
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Thank you so much Jankees for doing these one's! Especially the PNGDF bird.

:encouragement::encouragement::encouragement:
 
jankees said:
links to the first updates available:

I had a look and did about 50 paints for version 2. I am not going to update all of them, if there are any specific ones you're after, let me know?
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I would love to have your PanAm paint
the Blue Ball Scheme it wore between 1957 and 1960
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Regards - Gérard
 
Additional photos of SNAFU Special

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More experimentation with textures and spec....toned the latter down....definitely silver...;)

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Two Classics

I was out flying around in my old red and white "Gooney Bird" and came up on this PT-17. I found the red and white paint at flightsim. This PT-17 is based at Douglas, Georgia. Douglas was the home of one of the many WWII pilot training bases in Georgia. There is a nice museum there. There is also a WWII C-47 based there along with about three more WWII aircraft being restored.

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Beggars can't be choosers

Beggars can't be choosers. And those who can't shouldn't tell those who can. But...

I love the weathered look many of you are creating; after all, few of us can fly (in RL or sim) a spanking new aircraft, especially a 60+ year old Gooney Bird.

But to my eye the grime/wear/shading along rivet lines in most repaints is much too pronounced.

Indeed there are a couple of skins that I love but simply never fly because they just don't look realistic.

May I humbly, with hat in hand on bended knee, ask you wizards and magicians to google images of C-47s and DC-3, and look how their seams look--especially the ones that have been rode hard and put away wet.

The effect is very subtle.
 
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Hey Joe, did you ever finish your NACA bird? If not, are you planning to upload it when you are done?

Steve
 
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